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Retreat? NO. I propose to attach at daylight and whip them.
Ulysses S. Grant
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Ulysses S. Grant
Age: 63 †
Born: 1822
Born: April 27
Died: 1885
Died: July 23
18Th U.S. President
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Lee's army will be your objective point. Wherever Lee goes, there you will go also.
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When news of the surrender first reached our lines our men commenced firing a salute of a hundred guns in honor of the victory. I at once sent word, however, to have it stopped. The Confederates were now our prisoners, and we did not want to exult over their downfall.
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Declare church and state forever separate and distinct but each free within their proper spheres.
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The long-continued and useful public service and eminent purity of character of the deceased ex-President will be remembered.
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It was my fortune, or misfortune, to be called to the office of Chief Executive without any previous political training.
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The right of revolution is an inherent one. When people are oppressed by their government, it is a natural right they enjoy to relieve themselves of oppression, if they are strong enough, whether by withdrawal from it, or by overthrowing it and substituting a government more acceptable.
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Labor disgraces no man unfortunately, you occasionally find men who disgrace labor.
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I never was an Abolitionest, not even what could be called anti slavery, but I try to judge farely and honestly and it become patent to my mind early in the rebellion that the North and South could never live at peace with each other except as one nation, and that without Slavery.
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I never wanted to get out of a place as much as I did to get out of the presidency.
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If we are to have another contest in the near future of our national existence, I predict that the dividing line will not be Mason and Dixon's but between patriotism and intelligence on the one side, and superstition, ambition and ignorance on the other.
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Really, Mr. Lincoln, I have had enough of this show business.
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It is men who wait to be selected, and not those who seek, from whom we may expect the most efficient service.
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The distant rear of an army engaged in battle is not the best place from which to judge correctly what is going on in front.
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